What is smart growth?

Smart Growth is an ‘urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl. It also advocates compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets, and mixed-use development with a range of housing choices.’There are a range of best practices often associated with smart growth.

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In 2017 we will partner with the South Peoria Neighborhood Community Foundation, and the OU-Tulsa Urban Design Studio to help the City of Tulsa develop a citizen-driven plan for growth and development for the Riverwood area (61st & Peoria)… READ MORE

The Smart Growth Tulsa Community Policing Initiative is a development of community partnerships, problem solving and an organizational commitment from the City of Tulsa to change its current policing strategy by engagement and participation in …READ MORE

Smart Growth Tulsa advocates the City of Tulsa establish a single point of access to information which is a usable, navigable, unambiguous, timely and comprehensive public resource regarding the management and operation of the government of the City of Tulsa… READ MORE

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Your friends at Smart Growth Tulsa enter 2018 with renewed enthusiasm after experiencing some disappointing results from 2017’s fundraising efforts. There really is no way to sugar-coat it. Our hopes of generating sufficient revenue to fund a full-time executive director and administrative assistant have simply not yet materialized. After unsuccessfully appealing to several major local…

Hope is a powerful force that has the ability to transform individuals and communities. Students at OU-Tulsa are conducting a study to learn more about Tulsa’s level of hope. They want to learn how hopeful Tulsans are, both individually and collectively, and what is needed to encourage hope in our city. Please take 5 to…

“Downtown Tulsa is a desirable destination: home to centers of culture and employment and increasingly a complete urban neighborhood including residential, commercial and recreational uses. Improving the built environment . . . offers tremendous opportunity.” These words by Mayor Bynum introduce the Jeff Speck Walkability Study. Mayor Bynum is correct in these statements, and the…

While some property owners predictably resist what they consider to be cumbersome and sometimes expensive regulations, they are arguably the ones who have the most to gain by them. It is a mistake by those who dismiss design standards as nothing more than unnecessary aesthetics serving as barriers to doing business.

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